From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 20: 6:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD0E37B401 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts21-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts21.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313D343EC5 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 20:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.187.110]) by tomts21-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030104040642.GXZT7873.tomts21-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:06:42 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0444wk5056314; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:04:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004001c2b3a6$b3c4fe10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Justin Hopper" , References: <1041652526.27245.29.camel@home.gusalmighty.com> Subject: Re: Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:06:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This may be a very simple fix, but so far I've found no solution. Just > installed expat-1.95.5 in a FreeBSD 4.4 machine. The install went fine, > and I verified that ldconfig had picked up the library: > > host# ldconfig -r | grep expat > 73:-lexpat.4 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4 > > However, I need to install other packages that require the expat > library, and the configuration fails stating that the expat library > cannot be found. In fact, just a simple test fails: > > host# ld -lexpat > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lexpat How about ld -L/usr/local/lib -lexpat? Works fine here: gabby# ld -L /usr/local/lib -lexpat /usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `memmove' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `memcpy' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `malloc' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `realloc' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `memset' /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so: undefined reference to `free' gabby# If some programs can't find it, it's probably because /usr/local/lib isn't in their search path. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message